[Skimmertalk] Two instances of CWskimmer in Win7?

[Mark n2qt]

Yes I had issues with the quotes, but had figured it out after several (many) false starts. 
After using notepad to get the command line correct, k8nd's suggested method was 
much quicker.  I ended up with 6 different CWSkimmer's to cover both radios (one with
a subrx) and the inversion for 6m, so simple was good. 

Mark. N2QT

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Mark n2qt <n2qt.va at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The help file indicates it is possible to specify the location for the
>> ini file on the command line.  I have tried to embed this in the shortcut for cwskimmer but
>> I can't make it work.
> 
> Did you use enough quotes and fully qualify the name?  For example, in the CW Skimmer Shortcut properties, you would have to use (all on one line):
> 
> Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Afreet\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.exe" ini="C:\Users\YourUserid\AppData\Roaming\Afreet\Products\CwSkimmer\CwSkimmer.ini"
> 
> Then for a second copy of the shortcut, change the last part to "CwSkimmer2.ini".
> 
> I'm not sure if creating separate copies of the executable and creating separate folders, as described by K8ND, is still required.  I think you just need multiple .ini files specified in multiple shortcuts.  However, I did notice that CW Skimmer created or updated other files in the AppData folder when I ran it.  I don't know what's in these small files nor what would happen if you had two skimmers running and they both tried to write to these files.
> 
> Snr.dat
> Snr.txt
> Wpm.dat
> Wpm.txt
> 
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV